NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

24, 2023, will mark the end of OSIRIS-REx's primary 7-year mission that began with a launch in 2016 and sample-collection at Bennu in October 2020. Scientists are excited, but also on tenterhooks ...

After extensive mapping to identify a safe sample-collection point, OSIRIS-REx slowly descended toward the surface on Oct. 20, 2020, its pie pan-shaped "Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism ...

Then, the spacecraft would have to swiftly drop off the sample collection capsule at exactly ... our atmosphere until it reached the ground. OSIRIS-REx was built to do all that — and it worked.

Aerojet’s OSIRIS-REx program manager, said the spacecraft’s thruster system was critical to the mission’s success. He highlighted the system’s performance during the sample collection ...

Sample collection teams—NASA experts and academic mission scientists, US military representatives, and scientists and engineers from Lockheed Martin, which built the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft—have ...

When the OSIRIS-REx sample collection mechanism dipped toward the rock to gather a few asteroid pieces, scientists watching were surprised to see Bennu wasn't a nice, solid object like you might ...

Osiris-Rex’s sample return capsule descending toward ... A burst of nitrogen gas knocked up rocks and dust into the collection filter, and then Osiris-Rex slowly backed away without landing ...

When OSIRIS-REx was planned ... grams (4.29 ounces), the largest collection of extraterrestrial material from beyond the Moon. The return of the Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM ...

The bulk of the sample inside is an estimated 8.8 ounces (250 grams) of asteroid rock and dust—roughly enough to fill a can of soup. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped off the asteroid ...

It offered little resistance to OSIRIS-REx’s robotic arm as it tried to collect the sample, and bits of regolith got jammed in what was perhaps an overly full collection head. Some of the ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how deep it went. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 7 Best Sausage ...